D brand identity repository

Mafi mafi at example.org
Fri Jul 1 10:25:02 PDT 2011


Am 01.07.2011 19:21, schrieb Mafi:
> Am 01.07.2011 18:08, schrieb James Fisher:
>> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 8:35 PM, Mafi <mafi at example.org
>> <mailto:mafi at example.org>> wrote:
>>
>> This is my try.
>> What do you guys think about it?
>>
>>
>> So, I do think yours has merit. The one gripe I have with it is a lack
>> of obviousness. Compare:
>>
>> New Python user: "say, why's your logo made of snakes?"
>> Pythoneer: "..."
> where "..." is "Well, the creator of the language was a fan of Monty
> Python. So he decided to call the language python. Now, when they needed
> a logo, they just decieded to reinterpret 'python' and made the logo out
> of snakes. When now somebody sees a snake in programming context he
> thinks of 'python', the only language whose name *sounds* like the name
> of a snake."
>
> But you're right. With 'python' it's anyways a lot more obvious than
> with 'D'.
>
In the last sentence I mean the D logo and the python logo and the 
planets and snakes respectively.


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